Washington Independent Review of Books

As America turns 250 this summer, it’s worth rewinding to our country’s first milestone birthday in 1876 (and what a party that was!). In Centennial, historian Fergus M. Bordewich takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of the Great Exhibition of 1876, set within a year bu...

When Melanie Pappadis Faranello sent me an email in 2012, I had no idea it would be the beginning of an enduring literary friendship. She had just moved to my town in Connecticut and was looking for connections. I haven’t met any writers in the area yet and would love to get an idea of what the community is like here, she wrote. As a relative newcomer myself...

Shove over, The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho, for the dazzling final volume of Colson Whitehead’s superbly stylized Harlem Trilogy,

This October, Fall for the Book and George Mason University’s Institute for Immigration Research will proudly present the ninth New American Voices Award, a prize recognizing the work of first-generation writers. From the many entries, judges Donna Hemans, Angie Cruz, and Weike Wang have put...

“Jackie Swift’s professional and personal worlds collide one night when she gets a call from her younger sister, Madi, telling her she overdosed. Rushing to the rescue, Jackie stumbles on an awful scene at an Upper East Side mansion. Madi is nowhere to be found, but she’s left behind a dead body. Worse for Jackie, she knows the dead man all too w...